Mark Menjivar, a photographer who is based in San Antonio, Texas travelled all across America for almost four years to prove that we truly are what we eat.
has been exhibited in solo exhibitions for 10 times after its first exhibition in 2008 at Austin, Texas and has been exposed by various medias all over the globe such as , , (Brazil), (Spain), (Korea) and various others.
implicates the idea that we, as a whole, are determined by what we eat. It is perhaps considered as a cliche, but I personally agree to it although, to make it more precise, we are actually something of a greater extent: we are what we do. And looking at it from the bigger picture, what we eat is just one of the influencing factors that make us us.
Claire Dubosc based this movie on over than 200 videos stored on the web by current users (mostly from Youtube and Vimeo). For her graduation project she shows a computer that displays a day in the life of the common man in the early years of the 21st century seen through internet video data, using a basic chronological keyword research: "Moonset," "Sunrise," "Waking," "Breakfast," etc.
As we record the littlest details of our lives on the web, it tends to become an incredible testimony for the future and human memory now depends on computer’s hard drives. But what if the system suddenly crashed? What if all of it crashed in an instant?
Will our history and memories be deleted just like that?
Have you ever been told by anyone that you look like someone else? Well, considering the fact that there are over 7 billion people in the world and apparently the elements of our facial features have not changed much since the stone age, it is pretty much inevitable to have our own "twin" somewhere in this immensely huge world. A research also states that there are at least 7 people who look like us.
This look-alike phenomenon is often called '"sosie" in French, referring to the play "Amphitryon" written by Plauto, which has a character named Mercury who has to mimic another character named Sosia. Mercury did a fantastic job of it that Sosia himself was quite unsure which version of him is the real one; hence the word sosie. It is also called "doppelgaenger" in German, which literally means "double goer" and has a superstitious belief revolving around it: meeting your doppelgaenger is believed to be a sign of bad luck, because it means that you have met your evil twin.
Interested in this phenomenon, a canadian photographer made a project titled which is a black-and-white photograph compilation of people all over the world who look like each other although they are unrelated and separated miles, miles away.
It started out as one of his acquaintances worked for a man and woman who looked like each other, Francois then took a photograph of them and it became the first picture for the project. It has taken 12 years (what a commitment!) to track down these 200 look-alikes. He set up a website that became a platform where people could suggest some doppelgaengers they know, or, they could request to find their own look-alike.
Francois conveyed that we would be surprised to know how many people in the world want to meet their doppelgaengers. During these 12 years, Francois has received numerous calls (mostly from China) requesting him to find their own "twins." Francois, too, has already found his look-alike, who turned out to be Rowan Atkinson, the Mr. Bean star.
One of the reasons for his choice of taking black and white photos for his project is because the they emphasize facial structures rather than skin or hair colors, which are less-essential for the project.
Until today, over 200 people have been photographed and Francois is still looking for doppelgaengers all over the world. After when the photographs have been compiled, there will be an exhibition and book-launching for this project the following year.
What a crazy project and such a devoted photographer. Definitely looking forward to the exhibition and the book!
a video-maker residing in London, UK made (what I consider as) a satire video called that brought up this problem to screen. It is created with a simple concept: One megaphone, on a mountain in Washington D.C, reciting tweets from Twitter with the tag “nobody listens.”
which started out from the fact that “social media is used to connect but concurrently serves as a disconnect from society outside of the virtual world,” as Rachel Knoll herself wrote in the video description.
“Small City Big Design” is a motto from the legendary graphic design studio based in Bern, Switzerland, Buro Destruct. Since day one, Büro Destruct – especially its core team that consists of Lopetz (71), Mbrunner (70), H1reber (71), and HGBFideljus (71) – has kept open the boundary between art and commercial graphic design, as testified to by the number and variety of techniques employeed, and reflected in projects for clients from widely differing fields. They have held exhibitions, lectures, and workshops around the world.
unkl347 and Norrm will release exclusive merchandise and original artworks by Buro Destruct and Buro Discount. To end the event the are having a party, Buro Destruct will give a visual performance along with the finest selected local DJs from various genres.
Buro Destruct in Bandung is a collaborative event between unkl347, Büro Destruct, Norrm, HTH studio, and Maja House. They have merged to organized a series of event to be held on several different venues and times. The events will also be part of unkl347 17 anniversary and Buro Destruct’s 20 in 2014.
The Nike Air Max has always been about visibility. Air Max introduced bold colors on running shoes and making the unseen, seen by showing the air in 1987. 23 years later the desire to be seen has amplified and has been applied to the new Air Max Glow Collection.
Inspired by the necessity to be seen during night runs, the features glow-in-the-dark accents that transform the Nike Air Max 1, Air Max 90, Air Max 95, and Air Max Thea. Contrasting the crisp, white tape construction, under-mesh glow-in-the-dark prints illuminate during low light situations. It’s now possible to stand out at any hour, in any light.
The Nike Air Max Glow Collection will drop in Jakarta from December in the Men’s Air Max 90 and the Women’s Air Max Thea at IDR 1.999.000.
